Translations

[michakrapp]

Hey all 👋

Topic: Translations aka translate.wordpress.org

Sorry if this is already discussed somewhere else.
Does it make sense / is it wanted to also include this topic into FAIR?

If so, maybe I can find time to contribute to GlotPress or elsewhere, if changes are need (like supporting/utilizing the WP Rest API).
On my company project, I'm working a lot with GlotPress lately - the base for WordPress translations.

Currently I'm not fully aware of how WordPress (the software) gets its translations from translate.wordpress.org.
Maybe someone with more insights can give some background / informations here and what changes would be needed.

[michakrapp]

If I understand it correctly, git-updater supports language updates by a git(hub) reporistory.

My idea would be to utilize GlotPress to set up a translation server, that is integrated with WordPress to update translations.

Update:
So the Workflow would look something like this.

• i18n functions being added to the code
• POT file is generated and added to the repo
  (workflow with WP-CLI. Maybe this can be integrated)
• POT file gets pushed to GlotPress (update originals)
  (Have build this for my company with GPs wp cli commands. Maybe can be integrated)
• WordPress checks for language updates (from own language server via GP API)
  (Endpoints defined or assumed when GP is on the repo server)
• WordPress loads language updates (from own language server via GP API)

This way translations would be handled like currently via translate.wordpress.org just with an own GlotPress as language server

[michakrapp]

Maybe related fairpm/fair-plugin#42

[rmccue]

There's two parts to this: translations for FAIR itself, and a replacement for dotorg's translations.

For the former, we're going with committing those files to the repo for now, but might have GP set up later.

For the latter, we actually have the work mostly complete for this, including a system to mirror all the translation data from dotorg - you can find a bunch of that at https://github.com/fairpm/server/tree/main/content/plugins/f-translate - We've got a few bits there to fix up before it fully goes live though, so support definitely welcome on that! We need to backfill some of the issues as well which didn't make their way over to the published repos when we launched.